Midland Canal

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The Midland Canal ( in Germany . It branches off the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel (near Rheine ), runs north along the Teutoburg Forest , past Hannover and meets with the Elbe River at Magdeburg . At Magdeburg it connects to the Elbe-Havel Canal , making a continuous shipping route to Berlin and on to Poland . At Minden the canal crosses the Weser River on two viaducts (the second completed in 1998 ). Connections by side canals exist at Osnabrück , Hildesheim and Salzgitter . West of Wolfsburg , the Elbe side canal branches off, providing (via the Elbe-Lübeck Canal ) a connection to the Baltic Sea . Cities on the Mittellandkanal are:

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